Cuff-fastener



(No Model.)

G. c. PAINE.

CUFF FASTENER.

No. 319,015. Patented June 2, 1885.

Warren drains Parana- @rrrcn.

GEORGE G. PAINE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CUFF-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 319,015, dated June 2,1885.

Application filed Scntembcr22, 1884. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Gnoncn O. PAINE, of Boston, county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new. and Improved Form of Cuff-Fastener, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in cuff-fasteners designed chiefly for gentlemens use, and has for its object to furnish a cuff fastener which may be used auxiliary to and in connection with the button usually employed to button the wristbands of a shirt, and it consists of substantially a single piece of wire bent in a simple form, and provided with means for holding the cuff, and adapted to be readily attached to or detached from the but ton upon the wristband or sleeve of the shirt.

This invention consists, further, of certain attachments to a cuff-button, and which is used in connection with a cuff-fastener for the purpose of retaining the cuff-button upon the cuff, and all of which is described hereinafter more in detail.

In the drawings accompanying this speoification, Figure 1 shows the parts of a. cuff to which this fastener is applied with the fastener attached and the cuff ready to be placed upon the person of the wearer. Fig. 2 shows a perspective view of the fastener. Fig. 4 is a side or sectional view showing the attachment of the cuff to the wristband of the shirt. Fig. 5 shows a plan view, looking at the underneath side of the fastener. Figs. 3, 6, and 7 show modifications of construction.

Similar letters of reference refer to similar parts.

In the construction of this fastener a piece of small spring-wire of suitable length is bent upon itself or doubled in the form of a loop, with the ends brought together and united in a button, 13, to which button the wire is fixed rigidly or loosely, as may be desired.

In the bending or shaping of the wire the extreme bight, or part farthest from the ends, forms a loop, 0, of a size small enough to admit of its passing through an ordinary button-hole on a cuff. The parts of the wire forming the sides of the loop diverge from a straight line and extend toward each other, meeting at a point about one-third or onehalf of the distance from the bight to the ends,

thence extend straight and contiguous nearly to the ends, where the wires diverge slightly for a short distance, and meet again, forming a small or supplementary loop, (I, and thence remaining contiguous to the ends, where they unite in the button B, all of which is shown clearly in Figs. 2, 4, and 5. In this description the wire forming the loop and the sides of the loop, together with the straight part and small loop, lies in the same plane, which, for convenience, we will call the horizontal plane. Beyond the small loop (Z the ends of the wire are turned to a right angle to the loop part and in the perpendicular plane, (clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 4,) the button B, in which the ends unite, lying in the same plane as the loop part of the wire, but at a distance above or from it according to the length of that part of the wire described as turned at right angles to the loop part, and which may be of a length suitable to receive conveniently two parts of an ordinary cuff.

In using the fastener the loop 0 is passed through the buttonholes of the cuff, bringing the button B close to and upon the outside of the cuff, (shown in Fig. 1,) with the loop extending above the cuff. The cuff is drawn over the hand, as in the manner usual when putting a cuff on, and the loop 0 is guided over the button usually placed on or used in the wristbands of the shirt. As the cuff is drawn on, the shank of the wristband-button slides between the wires forming the loop Ountil it reaches the small loop (I, where it is held, the supplementary loop at encircling the shank of the button upon the wristband of the shirt, and the elasticity of the wire preventing the cuff from coming off accidentally, but permitting it to be readily drawn off in the usual manner by reversing the process of drawing it on.

The position of the different parts when the cuff is on is clearly shown in Fig. 4, where f f show section of the cuff, and 99 section of the wristband, and e shows the button of the wristband. The loop 0 may be bent up from the horizontal plane at an angle to the principal part of the wire, as shown at h in Fig. 4, either in a quarter-circle, as shown in the drawings, or at a straight angle, as shown in the dotted lines, the object of the bend being to afford IOO means for taking hold of the fastener more readily when drawing the cuff on.

In Fig. 3 is seen a fastener precisely like the one already described, except that instead of a button, 13, the wire is bent in a manner forming a loop, i, to prevent it passing through the button-holes in the cuff, and thus the loop 2' becomes equivalent to a button.

In the foregoing description the button B of this fastener is supposed to occupy the but ton-holes at the upper or inside edge of the cuff when upon the wearer, and will not ordinarily be made specially ornamental, although there need be no limit as to their expense or ornamental character. In Fig. 6 is shown a modification in the construction of this fastener, in which the button used is designed to be used in the lower or outer button-ho1es of the cuff, and would ordinarily be larger and of a more ornamental character than the button previously referred to. This fastener is precisely like the one that has been described, except that the wires from the small loop (I to the button E are longer or of a length correspondingto the distance substantially that is between the button-holes at the lower and upper edges of the cuff, and thus when the button 6 is in the loop (1 the cuff will be in the same position relative to the wristband as if the shorter fastenerwith the button B in the upper edge of the cuif were used.

In order to obviate a difficulty which might arise from a lack of rigidity or friction sufficieut to hold the button 6 into the loop (Z, owing to the greater length and thus greater elasticity of the'wires, the wires may be secured together by a clip, I, or by soldering or other suitable means; or the same results could be obtained by the employment of two or three numbers heavier wire in its construction.

The object of having the button E from the loop (I the distance as described is that thus the cuff, with the button of this fastener in the button'holes at the lower edge, will not be inateriallylengthened or shortened relative to the sleeve of the shirt when upon the wearer.

In combination with this fastener I have also a means for holding or securing the cuffbutton F to the cuff. The cuff-button F is provided with a wire loop, K, (shown clearly in Fig. 5,) to which it is attached, preferably loosely, the loop K being of a length not less than the distance between the button-holes at the lower and upper edges of the cuff. In using it the loop K is passed throughthe button-holes of the cuff and the button drawn a Although the fastener may be constructed,

as already described, with theends of the wire uniting in the button, it will be at once apparent that the ends of the wire may meet at any other part and be united by soldering or other suitable means; or the ends may be left entirely disconnected at the loop or bight, although the plan first described is obviously the best.

In Fig. 7 a fastener is shown in which the button B is set off at about an angle of forty-five degrees from the straight parts of the wire, and in the same plane, the drawings showing the under side of the fastener. The object of this set off is, that in this form of construction the fastener has a tendency, when worn with a cuff, to draw or swing to one side, so that the loop 0 willcome under the cuff, and thus obviate any objection that might exist as to its being in the way to the annoyance of the wearer.

I claim- 1. A cuff-fastener consisting of a wire bent into a loop, 0, at the bight, and provided with a button or loop at its opposite end, and with a supplementary intermediate loop, d, as and for the purpose substantially as described.

2. The combination, with a cuff-fastener consisting of a wire forming a loop, 0, and provided with a button, B, and a supplementary loop, d, of the loop K and button F, as and for the purpose substantially as described.

GEORGE 0. PAINE.

\Vitnesses:

A. WILKINs, F. WILKINs. 

